Recommending trusted online auction sellers using social network analysis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1666-1679

  Wang, Jyun Cheng ^a   Chiu, Chui Chen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Center weight; Information asymmetry; Online auction; Recommendation system; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SECURITY OF DATA; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; ONLINE AUCTION; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 37349110851     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.01.045     Document Type: Article

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